SCALY FERN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds

Synonyms:

Asplenium ceterach; Ceterach officinarum; scale fern; scaly fern

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("scaly fern" is a kind of...):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

Holonyms ("scaly fern" is a member of...):

Asplenium; genus Asplenium (in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae)

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